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SHOCKING: Lightning kills 22 Humans

It was sad
as lightning killed 21 people in eastern India as large swathes of the country
reel under the worst floods in years that have left hundreds dead and millions
displaced, officials said Monday.

Eighteen
people were killed in Odisha state, authorities there said. Another three died
in Jharkhand state further north.

About 10
people were injured by the widespread bolts as storms erupted over rice
paddies.

Most of the
victims were working in fields when lightning struck them, disaster management
authority officials said.

But in
Jharkhand, two brothers in Kharswan district were killed when the lightning
penetrated the thatched roof of their house.

The national
meteorological department warned more lightning storms were expected through
Tuesday.

Odisha has
also been badly hit by floods and another three bodies were found in waters in
Jajpur district, taking the region’s toll from the deluge to seven in 48 hours.

Torrential
rains have wreaked havoc across several other Indian states, damaging roads and
electricity networks, with about 700 dead reported across the country.

As many as
20 states have suffered in the monsoon season that began in June.

In the
western state of Gujarat, 213 people have been killed in weeks of flooding,
state disaster management officials said, almost doubling the death toll after
about 100 bodies were found when water started receding.

Suresh
Kumar, West Bengal’s top disaster management official, said 31 deaths were reported
in a week of flooding in the state.

Landslides
and flash floods in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
since April have left dozens dead, while Jharkhand and Bihar have also been
badly hit. Nearly 140 lightning deaths have been reported in Bihar since May.

Lightning
kills thousands of Indians every year, especially during the June-October
monsoon — most of them farmers working the fields.

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